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Fulton County, NY

98 public highway bridges tracked in the FHWA National Bridge Inventory: 34.7% rated Good, 50% Fair, 15.3% Poor.

98
Public bridges: 34.7%
Good condition: 15.3%
Poor condition

The verdict

According to the Federal Highway Administration's 2024 National Bridge Inventory.

Fulton County pairs a higher-than-median Poor-condition share among rated counties in the state with an older average build year than the state inventory.

54th
of 62 on Poor share: 15.3%
Poor-condition share: 98
public highway bridges: 1958
avg year built

Poor is an FHWA condition category from the lowest applicable component rating (4 or below), not a live crossing-safety or closure decision. Rankings cover counties with at least five public highway bridges.

Fulton County Bridge Snapshot

According to the Federal Highway Administration's 2024 National Bridge Inventory, Fulton County ranks #54 of 62 New York counties with at least 5 public highway bridges on Poor-condition share (lower share ranks better; currently 15.3%). Fulton County, New York contains 98 public highway bridges. Roughly 34.7% are rated “Good,” 50% “Fair,” and 15.3% “Poor.” Poor means the lowest applicable deck, superstructure, substructure, or culvert rating is 4 or below on the 0–9 NBI scale. It is a condition category, not a live safety or closure decision.

Responsible agencies inspect covered bridges on risk-based intervals under current NBIS rules and submit inventory data to FHWA annually. The list below shows every NBI-tracked bridge in the county. Use the “Sort by” controls to change the ordering, and click any row for its reported inspection date, traffic count, and condition fields.

Source: FHWA National Bridge Inventory. See methodology for full definitions.

Total bridges

Public highway bridges in Fulton County

Good condition

34.7%

34 of 98 rated 7-9

Fair condition

50%

49 of 98 rated 5-6

Poor condition

15.3%

15 of 98 rated 4 or below

In-state Poor-share rank

#54 of 62

Among New York counties with 5+ bridges, lower share ranks better

Condition distribution

Share of 98 NBI-tracked bridges by lowest applicable component rating.

Good

34.7% (34)

Fair

50% (49)

Poor

15.3% (15)

Fulton County's Poor-condition bridges carry 12,656 vehicle crossings a day

That is 8.4% of the county's reported daily bridge traffic on 14.4% of its bridges: Poor-condition structures carry less traffic than their share of the inventory. Each Poor bridge averages 904 crossings a day against 1,911 for a Good-condition one. A Poor rating is a condition category, not a closure or a live safety judgement; it means the lowest applicable component rating is 4 or below.

Computed over the 97 of 98 bridges in this county that report an average daily traffic count. Source: FHWA National Bridge Inventory, 2024 release.

66.3% of Fulton County's bridges have passed the 50-year mark

65 of the 98 bridges with a recorded construction year were built in 1974 or earlier. Age alone is not a defect: a well-maintained older bridge can rate Good, and 34.7% of this county's inventory does. Even so, this older cohort is the population from which future Poor ratings are drawn, which is why the age profile below matters alongside the condition split above.

Cutoff derives from the 2024 release year minus a 50-year design life. Source: FHWA National Bridge Inventory, 2024 release.

One structure carries 36.5% of the county's Poor-condition bridge traffic

HARRISON STREET over CAYADUTTA CREEK, built 1912, carries 4,616 vehicles a day, the most of any Poor-rated structure here. The county's Poor-condition exposure is concentrated rather than evenly spread, so the 15-bridge count understates how much of the daily burden sits on a single crossing.

Share is of the 12,656 daily crossings on Poor-rated bridges that report a traffic count. Source: FHWA National Bridge Inventory, 2024 release.

pre-1900

1
1900s

2
1910s

3
1920s

10
1930s

23
1940s

8
1950s

8
1960s

7
1970s

6
1980s

6
1990s

12
2000s

6
2010s

3
2020s

3

What this shows Construction peaked in the 1930s, when 23 of the county's bridges still in the inventory were built, which is 23.5% of those with a recorded year. That cohort is now 85 to 94 years old in the 2024 inventory. Its average build year is 1958, 14 years older than the New York average of 1972.

How Fulton County compares with New York's closest counties by inventory size

The 5 New York counties nearest Fulton County in number of bridges, with their condition splits. Its 15.3% Poor share is the 6th-lowest of these 6. Its average build year of 1958 against a peer-group mean of 1974 is 16 years older.

Showing the 5 closest of 61 New York counties eligible for comparison.

Bridge inventory size and condition shares for Fulton County and the 5 New York counties closest to it in inventory size
County	Bridges	Good	Fair	Poor	Avg. built
Schenectady County	115	32.2%	60%	7.8%	1977
Putnam County	104	15.4%	73.1%	11.5%	1964
Schuyler County	100	40%	55%	5%	1983
Fulton County (this page)	98	34.7%	50%	15.3%	1958
Wayne County	97	48.5%	41.2%	10.3%	1974
Hamilton County	88	34.1%	51.1%	14.8%	1970

Each share is of that county's own total tracked bridges; peers are the counties with 5 or more bridges whose inventory size is closest to Fulton County's. Source: FHWA National Bridge Inventory, 2024 release.

Nationwide counties with similar inventory size or average build year

Two NBI-derived peer sets for Fulton County, both outside New York so the neighborhoods are not the same-state size table above.

Similar inventory size

Nearest county inventories outside NY (98 bridges here).

Boone County, AR · 98 bridges
Van Buren County, AR · 98 bridges
Dougherty County, GA · 98 bridges
Butler County, KY · 98 bridges

Similar average build year

Nearest mean year-built outside NY (1958 here).

Middlesex County, MA · avg 1958 · 818 bridges
Bucks County, PA · avg 1958 · 699 bridges
Butte County, CA · avg 1958 · 437 bridges
Cowley County, KS · avg 1958 · 337 bridges

Source: FHWA National Bridge Inventory, 2024 release. Peers floor at 10 bridges so stub inventories cannot own the match.

All 98 Good 34 Fair 49 Poor 15

All bridges (98)

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Fulton County Bridge Snapshot

Condition distribution

Fulton County's Poor-condition bridges carry 12,656 vehicle crossings a day

66.3% of Fulton County's bridges have passed the 50-year mark

One structure carries 36.5% of the county's Poor-condition bridge traffic

How Fulton County compares with New York's closest counties by inventory size

Nationwide counties with similar inventory size or average build year

Similar inventory size

Similar average build year

All bridges (98)

N ARLINGTON AVE

BRIDGE STREET

RTE 920H

MORROW ROAD

COUNTY ROAD 102

LONDON BRIDGE RD

COUNTY ROAD 116

HAGEDORN ROAD

RTE 29A

RTE 30

RTE 30

RTE 29

BORNT ROAD

HAGEDORN MILLS RD

PISECO ROAD

SOUTH MAIN STREET

N PERRY STREET

N MARKET STREET

N CHASE STREET

RTE 10

RTE 10

RTE 29A

RTE 10

BARLOW ROAD

CR155 BRIDGE STREE

HILL STREET

RTE 334

BURR STREET

RTE 334

RTE 30

RTE 29A

YOUKERS ROAD

RTE 29

CREEK ROAD

NORTH ROAD

PINNACLE ROAD

PISECO ROAD

PISECO ROAD

PECKS LAKE ROAD

VOORHEES ROAD

TANNERY ROAD

RTE 29

CALDERWOOD ROAD

CAPE HORN ROAD

PISECO ROAD

RTE 29

IRISH SETTLEMENT R

HARRISON STREET

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